Outreach Updates

WL: Eric Miller, chair of Semantic Web working group, is a Yuri Rubinsky
fan. Reminds us that accessibility is an imperative, not a add-on.

LL: Attended a meeting of the Consumer Disability Telecommunication Access
Committee of the SBC. Very little content on access. Issue, how distribute
the cost for universal access between users and providers. No longer on
committee.

HB: Excellent webcast of keynote presentation by Mike Paciello for a MacroMedia
workshop on Section 508. Mike introducing accessibility, ICADD, WAI, WCAG,
to show precedents for Section 508. Audience was government attendees. Mike
has consented to my posting this. I played it on Real Player running on Windows.
Even the real-time captioning is readable at 2x magnification. Link:
Macromedia
Accessibility Webcast
http://www.tvworldwide.com/event_macromedia_061301.cfm

DS: [from email: learned that Andrew, Carlos, and Jean-Marie are on a separate
bridge call now.

JB: Bizarre! [got assistant to clear a bridge, add it, and allow them to
join.]

HB: Add to 3.5: Summarize and followup, include validation.

HB: 5.1 Not necessarily "each URL", but each page type and representative
page of the type (the database-generated pages needn't all be checked.).

Conformance Assertion

DS: Is there any meta for assertion of conformance?

HB: Not in Dublin Core.

WL: Proposed material. Question how it is recommended. WCAG asserts that
a conformance statement should be included in the document.

DS: Like a "flag" often at the end of the content of the document.

WL: The entire EARL assertion methodology should apply to this.

HB: Send pointer to EARL Primer draft to group.

WL: Analogous to PPP, Likewise appropriate for any XML, so should be in XML
guidelines.

Business Benefits

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AA: Business
case demographics show the summary of what The three of us [who had been
on a separate call] agreed to put in some potential demographics: eneralize
15 to 20% of population in developed countries have some disability.